"The Austrian Government has withdrawn the subvention that it granted
last year to the Vienna General Hospital to defray the coat of inoculation on the Pasteur system. The failures have been so numerous as to discourage competent judges from further supporting the method." So wrote the Vienna correspondent of the Standard in the Standard of Thursday week, and we are not surprised. The statement is corroborated by the sad news of Lord Doneraile's death from hydrophobia, as he, too, is one of M. Pasteur's failures. The Report of the recent English Royal Commission will not bear any sort of critical examination as regards the inference drawn from the statistics of the cases in which human patients bitten by mad dogs have been saved by Pasteur's subsequent inoculation from an attack of hydrophobia. The only part of that Report which has any show of plausibility is the part founded on Mr. Victor Horsley's experiments on the protective inoonlation of dogs, and even that is not conclusive, though it does appear to show that dogs inocu- lated before they are bitten by a mad dog, have a considerably better chance of escaping rabies than doge not so inoculated.
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